The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of visual/aural conditions on the emotional response to music of musicians and nonmusicians. Subjects, musicians (n = 90) and nonmusicians (n = 90), were randomly assigned to three experimental groups: visual only, aural only, and visual/aural. The stimulus used for the experimental conditions was a taped excerpt (the final 8 minutes, 22 seconds) of a commercially recorded "live" concert of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2, "The Resurrection." Subjects were asked to indicate degrees of their felt emotional response by manipulating a Continuous Response Digital Interface (CRDI) dial during experimental conditions. Subject demographic data were collected by means of an exit questionnaire. / Results indicated no significant difference between musicians and nonmusicians for the aural only and visual/aural conditions. A significant difference was found among musicians and nonmusicians for the visual only condition. / A qualitative analysis of individual and collective response graphs revealed that all subjects differentiated across the music stimulus excerpt. Additionally, there were subtle differences among musicians and nonmusicians in response to listening to music and to listening/watching the video recording. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-08, Section: A, page: 2312. / Major Professor: Clifford K. Madsen. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1994.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77216 |
| Contributors | Adams, Bobby L., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 183 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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